A book by a lecturer at the College of Islamic Sciences is adopted as a basic curriculum for the colleges of Islamic sciences at Iraqi universities

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The book entitled (The Comprehensive in the Science of Meanings) issued by Professor Dr. Jassim Abdul Wahid Rahi, a lecturer in the Department of Arabic Language – College of Islamic Sciences at Karbala University, obtained the approval of the Supervision and Evaluation Authority in the Ministry of Higher Education as a basic curriculum book for students of colleges of Islamic sciences at Iraqi universities.

The book specialized in one of the branches of rhetoric, namely (the science of meanings), in order to specify and facilitate the control of the rules of this branch and to cover all its topics and details, including what the scholars differed on whether it belongs to it, such as the attention and the comma, so that the student of knowledge can stand on its precise details and logical divisions that can be used to gradually present and follow the subject, and the book is divided into four chapters, with a number of (452) pages.

The author of the book stated that it is one of the serious attempts to revive the rhetorical lesson and link it to the Quranic rhetoric, so it was written according to a methodology that relies on presenting the Quranic evidences first; because the Holy Quran was – and still is – a place of attraction and interest for the students of the Arabic language, and an occupant of the human thought, Arab and non-Arab.

The Quran in its system is a rhetorical example that led the Arabic tongue to an unfamiliar level of expression for the Arabs, who are the people of eloquence and statement, so it brought their language out to a wider horizon in the formulation and connotations. And then citing the words of the noble Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and the words of the eloquent, as well as presenting the poetic evidences secondly, so that the diversity in the evidence that gives the student the possibility of reading any text rhetorically is not lost